‘The Vicar at the Window Sponging his Aspidistra’: Comedy in High and Low British Culture

Abstract

This article strives to demonstrate that one of the specificities of British comedy resides in class comedy. The author alternately concentrates on low and high comedy, and makes comments on related features or forms, like surrealism. It ends up on the unifying powers of comedy.

Keywords

• class mockery
• double entendre
• high culture
• low comedy
• series
• sex comedy